{"id":107566,"date":"2024-10-21T18:03:40","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T18:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/4-dead-including-a-child-after-helicopter-crashes-into-houston-radio-tower-police\/"},"modified":"2024-10-21T18:03:40","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T18:03:40","slug":"4-dead-including-a-child-after-helicopter-crashes-into-houston-radio-tower-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/4-dead-including-a-child-after-helicopter-crashes-into-houston-radio-tower-police\/","title":{"rendered":"4 dead, including a child, after helicopter crashes into Houston radio tower: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-10-21\/Untitled%20design%20%2828%29.png\" alt><figcaption>Houston Fire Department<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(HOUSTON) &#8212; Four people, including a child, were killed when a helicopter crashed into a radio tower in Houston, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened just before 8 p.m. Sunday when a private aircraft struck a radio tower in Houston&#8217;s Second Ward, Houston police said.<\/p>\n<p>All four people on the helicopter were killed. No one on the ground was injured, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>No homes or structures were impacted except for the radio tower, police said, but a fire that erupted from the crash spanned two to three blocks.<\/p>\n<p>Houston Fire Department officials extinguished the fire after the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Houston police Lt. Jonathan French said Monday he was thankful no one on the ground was hurt.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to keep the families and our victims\u00a0in mind right now. This is a horrible tragedy,&#8221; he said, adding, &#8220;This could have been much worse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The crash is being investigated by Houston authorities, the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration.<\/p>\n<p>The helicopter was operating as an air tour flight, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the accident remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston Fire Department (HOUSTON) &#8212; Four people, including a child, were killed when a helicopter crashed into a radio tower in Houston, officials said. The crash happened just before 8 p.m. Sunday when a private aircraft struck a radio tower in Houston&#8217;s Second Ward, Houston police said. All four people<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/4-dead-including-a-child-after-helicopter-crashes-into-houston-radio-tower-police\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}